The ed is so beautiful, love that it's minimal and just showcasing her stunning face. Can we have a Rooney cover every year?

__________________we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. wandering by lone sea breakers and sitting by desolate streams. world losers and world forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams. yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever it seems

With the exception of the black and white portrait that begins to get somewhere, so far the whole thing reads as incredibly cold and apathetic, and leaves me indifferent. I feel no way about it what-so-ever, which is even worse than complete disdain.

This month was a great opportunity to post a few potential Oscar winners, and I don't understand why Anna didn't take it. I like Rooney well enough as an actress, and her first cover was excellent, but this is just a big mess. The styling, the text placement, the bland expression for the patriotic American issue... it's a shame.

The whole cover just looks off to me. At least it's something different but the text is a disaster. The accompanying ed is nothing to write home about either.

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Originally Posted by t-rex

These banners are useless - "The most in demand skin experts in town" NO ONE is buying the issue for that.

AMEN! The botoxed, trophy wives/socialites of NYC that buy Vogue already know who they best doctors are and have paid quite a few visits. The rest 99% of Vogue's audience doesn't give a rat's a** about this.

hmm i feel like in 2011/early 2012 this magazine had really hit a good stride. the contents were interesting, the eds felt fresh, even when the cover had someone i didn't like(lady gaga, penelope cruz) i still found the image and look of it be well done. but ever since the summer 2012 issues, its all felt so bland to me-the same things every month, uninspired celeb shoot, boring karlie edit, predictable straight off the runway looks. its frustrating to see when you know it has the potential to be ten times better.

there is nothing "spring now!" about rooney's editorial...
i just keep coming back to the kate bosworth/american themed issue vogue did a few years back that was stunning...
rooney is not an unattractive woman, but she looks so dour and serious here; i wish the ed and cover had more life...